Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...break came recently with the discovery that small silicon diodes, working much like the cat's-whisker crystals of early radio sets, can pick microwave energy out of the air and turn it into direct current with reasonable efficiency. Thousands of diodes, strung like glass beads on a network of wires, are needed to intercept Raytheon's beam. In the model helicopter demonstrated last week, they feed direct current at about 100 volts to a small motor taken from an electric drill. The beam of 2,450-megacycle microwaves starts out with three kilowatts of power; the diode...
...their inventories with computers, which record every sale and tell managers when and how much to reorder. Borrowing an idea from the airlines, Long Island's Maxson Electronics Co. plans by next July to link 5,000 hotels, travel bureaus and car-rental outlets in a computerized reservations network...
...WHRB will broadcast the election special of the Ivy Radio Network, which pools the resources of the eight Ivy League stations. The Ivy Network's program will originate from studios in Radio City Center, and will be carried by all of the eight stations for most of each hour, the remainder to be occupied by local news...
Besides coverage from WHRB's Washington group and phoned reports from various colleges, the Ivy Network will feature taped interviews supplied by UPI and sidelights from political satirist Marvin Kitman of Monocle magazine...
Both WHRB election night broadcasts, the University Broadcasting System on FM and the Ivy Network on AM, will begin at 7 p.m. and continue until about 3 a.m. the following morning...